basketball coach of the year

In the seventh season of his second stint as head coach, Ben DiBiase led Freehold Boro boys basketball to places it hadn't been in 50-plus years.

Already the steward of one of the Shore's elite programs, Andrew Bilodeau led Manasquan into uncharted territory in 2022-23.

Three coaches with a Shore Conference Tournament championship on their career résumé populate the list of Shore Sports Network Coach of the Year finalists for 2023.

In his 10 seasons at Marlboro, Mike Nausedas has taken the Mustangs on a steady climb that reached its pinnacle in 2022.

Mike Nausedas led Marlboro from the agony of defeat in 2020 to the cusp of the program's first championship in 2021. He will look to it again in 2020.

Manasquan has been a consistent winner under Andrew Bilodeau and this past season, the Warriors reached heights not seen in the program in more than 60 years.

After six excruciating sectional final losses, Brian Golub and Freehold Township finally won an elusive Central Jersey Group IV championship in 2018-19.